Category Archives: Linux

Linux GMA500 (Poulsbo) driver moved out of staging

Good news for people with an Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) graphics card, support is now in the mainline Linux kernel. In the Linux 3.3-rc1 (mainline) kernel the driver has moved out of staging and re-named. It is now located under Device … Continue reading

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Ubuntu gma500 poulsbo Live CD

In follow up to this post I have remastered a daily build of Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin. I have made a copy publicly available for those with one of these graphics cards. Please keep in mind it is an alpha … Continue reading

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Intel GMA 500 psb_gfx

I have been one of the frustrated owners of an Intel GMA 500 card – see how kick your friends face gma500 for details. Support for this card in Linux has historically been poor, at best, and X typically fails … Continue reading

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initramfs

I have used gentoo on my netbook mainly to test the gma500 staging driver with a custom kernel. I have used gentoo-hardened sources with LUKS and LVM as well as fbcondecor. In order to get the system to boot I … Continue reading

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Fedora classroom

I am going to try to offer a few sessions in Fedora Classroom starting next week with iptables. I hope to cover “the basics” of iptables in #fedora-classroom on September 15th , 21:00 (UTC) The session is planned to last … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Membership via Forums participation

The Ubuntu Forums Council is pleased to continue the availability of

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Fedora 15 remove kmod-nvidia

The post is in follow up to my post on installing the kmod-nvidia . I am a fanboi of the nouveau driver and the only reason I use the nvidia driver is when the nouveau driver fails. This means removing … Continue reading

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selinux MCS

This is the second post regarding selinux arising from security discussions at our LUG. Introduction Selinux uses MAC, or mandatory access control, to grant or deny access to files or processes. Multi-Category Security (MCS) is a method of giving users … Continue reading

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selinux sandbox

This is the second in a series of blogs arising from security discussions in my LUG. This month we covered selinux and here I will show some examples of using the selinux sandbox. Dan Walsh explains a selinux sandbox Introducing … Continue reading

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Apparmor privoxy profile

This blog is an extension of a discussion we had at our LUG regarding security. We are reviewing both apparmor and selinux and started with apparmor. One advantage of apparmor is that it is relatively easy to learn, but a … Continue reading

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